BUDGET IN BRIEF

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Statement from the Administrator .............................................................. 1

Overview

Summary of Authorizing Legislation ......................................................... 3

NHTSA Funding Table .............................................................................. 4

Graph: Total FY 2004 NHTSA Request .................................................... 5

Performance Goals

Vehicle Safety............................................................................................. 6

Behavioral Safety ....................................................................................... 8

Human and Natural Environment ............................................................. 10

Miscellaneous

Outcome Measures ................................................................................... 11

Highway Traffic Safety Grants

 (Section 402 Basic Formula Grant) ..................................................... 15

Organizational Chart................................................................................. 17

NATIONAL

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC

SAFETY ADMINISTRATION

For a detailed presentation and explanation of NHTSA’s FY 2004 Budget Request, refer to

Budget Estimates Fiscal Year 2004, NHTSA: Submission to the Committees on Appropriations.

The information presented was compiled by the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Budget,

Office of Fiscal Services. For additional copies call Katherine Montgomery at (202) 366-1570

or Diana Loper at (202) 366-0268.
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Statement from the Administrator

The Department of Transportation and the National Highway

Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) are committed to supporting a performance-based budget that addresses one of our

Nation’s most pressing public health problems – motor vehicle

deaths and injuries. We intend to do this by meeting the

Administration’s highway safety goals, as well as achieving improvements directed by the President’s Management Agenda.

NHTSA’s FY 2004 Budget Request of $665 million includes $218

million for Operations and Research and $447 million for Highway Traffic Safety Grants.

More than 42,000 Americans are killed each year on the Nation’s

highways. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death

and disability for Americans aged 35 and under. The impact of

these deaths and the 3.3 million serious injuries that occur every

year touch families and communities in ways that go far beyond

these grim statistics.

The economic burden of traffic crashes on the Nation is staggering.

Motor vehicle crashes cost America $231 billion annually, or 2.3 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, including $21 billion from Federal and State tax revenues ($203 of tax for every household in the

country). This figure includes approximately $32 billion for medical expenditures and $59 billion in property damage. Crash related injuries are one of the leading causes of lost workdays for American industry.

Financial costs pale in comparison to the ongoing pain, disability, psychological stress and emotional

strain experienced by victims of crash-related injury.

To combat these tragedies, NHTSA is committed to pursuing an aggressive safety agenda that will result

in meeting the Department’s FY 2004 highway fatality goal of no more than 1.38 fatalities per 100 million

vehicle miles traveled (VMT). In contributing to the Department’s aim to reach this lifesaving goal,

NHTSA’s FY 2004 Budget Request is presented around three major strategic goals: Vehicle Safety,

Behavioral Safety and Human and Natural Environment.

Under the strategic goal of Vehicle Safety, the agency is dedicating resources to both crash avoidance and

crashworthiness activities to improve motor vehicle safety performance. Preventing crashes in the first

place and preventing death and injury when they do occur are the paramount strategic objectives of

NHTSA’s vehicle safety programs. Crash avoidance activities are directed at reducing headlight glare,

enhancing motor vehicle braking performance, improving heavy truck brakes and preventing vehicle

rollover. Crashworthiness activities aim to improve seating systems, side impact, and rollover protection.

The New Car Assessment Program will conduct frontal and side crashworthiness testing to provide important safety ratings to consumers, support rating of child safety seats, and develop braking performance

ratings and rollover static and dynamic test ratings.

NHTSA will continue to remove defective vehicles from the highways and is proposing an improved data

collection and analysis system, Artemis, to enhance our ability to identify defects. Modernizing NHTSA’s

database is an essential activity in understanding the complex events that contribute to crashes. The new

Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Study will update 25 year-old data to identify and understand events that

lead to motor vehicle crashes. That knowledge is vital to the development and evaluation of crash prevention countermeasures.

(Continued on the following page)
2 Budget in Brief

Behavioral Safety initiatives will be directed to increasing safety belt use and deterring impaired driving,

which are central to achieving the Department’s traffic fatality goal. Safety belt use is one of our most

effective strategies, and our goal is belt use of 79 percent by the end of 2004. Primary usage laws are the

key; States with these laws achieved 80 percent usage in 2002, compared to a 69 percent average in

secondary law States. Achieving a two percentage point gain in safety belt use in 2002 translates to

six million more people belted, which saves 500 lives a year. In FY 2004, NHTSA will continue to

encourage adoption and enforcement of primary laws, proven to increase belt use by an average of

11 percentage points in States that have them.

Over 17,400 people were killed in alcohol-related crashes in 2001, equivalent to a FY 2001 rate of 0.63

fatalities per 100 million VMT. Our partners and law enforcement are promoting stricter penalties for

impaired driving, and a new grant program will encourage States to evaluate their alcohol programs and

identify improvements to reduce alcohol-related deaths. States that have enacted and enforced strong

laws and have effective adjudication programs have experienced significant decreases in alcohol-related

traffic deaths.

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) programs in this budget request will continue NHTSA’s leadership

in the EMS field in coordinating wireless emergency access and response activities among the federal

agencies, and developing protocols, operational guidance and education to assist State and local EMS

systems. The new Section 407 grants will help States coordinate and develop improved response systems,

including wireless E911. These types of enhancements will address the agency’s mandate to reduce postcrash fatalities by enhancing a more rapid response and treatment of crash victims.

NHTSA’s mandate to administer the Nation’s fuel economy program will continue the work begun in

FY 2002 and FY 2003. The program will support the third strategic goal, Human and Natural Environment, in keeping with the President’s goals of energy, security, safety and securing American jobs. Improvements to fleet efficiency in future years will be brought about largely by FY 2004 rulemaking and

research efforts.

NHTSA’s FY 2004 budget request is performance-based and results-oriented. We will continue to invest

in activities that are data driven and effective in saving lives and reducing injuries.

Jeffrey W. Runge, M.D.
Overview 3

Overview

SUMMARY OF

AUTHORIZING LEGISLATION

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) was established as a separate

organization within the Department of Transportation (DOT) in March 1970 to administer the

Department’s motor vehicle and highway safety programs. NHTSA succeeded the Department’s

Federal Highway Administration’s National Highway Safety Bureau, which originally was charged

with administering these programs.

On June 9, 1998, the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) (Pub. L. 105-178)

reauthorized all of NHTSA’s motor vehicle and highway safety programs and created several new

highway safety incentive grant programs that NHTSA administers.

On November 1, 2000, the Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability, and Documentation

(TREAD) Act (Pub. L. 106-414), was enacted. The TREAD Act requires NHTSA to undertake

more than a dozen rulemaking actions in the areas of tire safety standards, rollover propensity,

and improving child safety.

As amended, the NHTSA statutes are as follows:

Motor Vehicle Safety (chapter 301 of title 49, U.S. Code), provides for the

establishment and enforcement of safety standards and regulations for the

manufacture of new motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment, together with

supporting research.

Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings (part C of subtitle VI of title 49,

U.S. Code), provides for the establishment of low-speed bumper protection

standards, consumer information activities, odometer regulations, fuel economy

standards, and motor vehicle theft prevention standards.

Highway Safety (chapter 4 of title 23, U.S. Code), provides for coordinated

national highway safety grant programs carried out by the States and local

communities (Section 402), supported by research and development programs

(Section 403). Highway safety incentive grant programs are provided to

encourage the States to enhance the effectiveness of: (1) occupant protection

programs and laws (Section 405); (2) alcohol-impaired driving countermeasures

and laws (Section 410); and (3) highway safety data improvement programs

(Section 411).

National Driver Register (chapter 303 of title 49 U.S. Code), provides for the

operation of the National Driver Register (NDR), which facilitates the interstate

exchange of driver licensing information concerning problem drivers whose

licenses to drive have been suspended or revoked for cause.
4 Budget in Brief

The FY 2004 Budget Request reflects a performance-based budget dedicated to

attaining the FY 2004 Departmental goal of reducing highway fatalities to no more

than 1.38 for every 100 million vehicle miles traveled (VMT). This Budget in Brief

is organized and presented by grouping NHTSA’s highway traffic safety programs

within each of the three performance goals they are dedicated to meet: Vehicle

Safety, Behavioral Safety, and Human and Natural Environment. The performance

goals appear at the beginning of each section. Highlights of the FY 2004 Budget

Request, describing critical program activities dedicated to attaining the FY 2004

Departmental goal, are included in each section. The funding levels below include

staffing, administrative, and program costs.

NHTSA FUNDING

(Dollars in Thousands)

 FY 2002 FY2003 FY2004 PROGRAMS Enacted Request Request +/– 03/04

Vehicle Safety $126,952 $129,262 $146,852 +$17,590

Behavioral Safety $296,206 $294,543 $516,3091 +$221,766

Human and Natural Environment $441 $1,640 $1,949 +$309

Total2 $423,599 $425,445 $665,110 +$239,665

Overview

1 Includes $222 million of TEA-21 resources for the Sections 157 and 163 grant programs formerly

appropriated in the Federal Highway Administration budget. NHTSA has always administered these

funds; therefore, the budget proposes that the funding be appropriated directly to NHTSA.

2 Funding does not include CSRS accruals. The total CSRS accruals are $4.43 million in FY 2003 and

$5.04 million in FY 2004.
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TOTAL FY 2004

NHTSA REQUEST: $665,110

Dollars in Thousands

Overview

Overview
6 Budget in Brief

FY 2004 HIGHLIGHTS

RULEMAKING

• Safety Standards Support — Provide testing, cost and leadtime studies, and other support for crash avoidance

and crashworthiness rulemakings to improve seating systems, side impact protection, and standards applicable

to motorcycles, and to reduce headlight glare.

• New Car Assessment Program — Provide testing and consumer information for frontal and side crashworthiness

ratings, child safety seat Ease-of-Use, and rollover static and dynamic test ratings. Provide support for evaluating child seats in dynamic sled tests, developing braking performance ratings, and improving vehicle safety

consumer information.

• Theft — Provide support for a legislatively required report on information regarding theft and recovery of motor

vehicles (including passenger cars, light trucks, and multi-purpose vehicles), comprehensive insurance coverage,

and actions taken by insurers to reduce motor vehicle thefts.

ENFORCEMENT

• Vehicle Safety Compliance — Verify compliance of new vehicles and equipment with the requirements of the

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards to support reduction of motor vehicle fatality rates. Conduct heavy

truck brake testing and develop new test procedures in response to TREAD Act rulemaking.

• Defects Investigation — Develop a new improved data retention and management system to enhance NHTSA’s

ability to perform statistical analyses and complex analytical queries. Utilize the new data warehouse required

by the TREAD Act, increasing NHTSA’s ability to identify defects earlier by using early warning data submitted

by manufacturers and allowing increased public access to vehicle safety information.

Program

VEHICLE SAFETY

This request would allow DOT to reduce highway fatalities by improving the safety performance

of motor vehicles through issuing safety standards, investigating defects, and conducting research.

These improvements promote greater crash avoidance and crashworthiness of vehicles, thereby

making motor vehicle crashes increasingly preventable and survivable.

VEHICLE SAFETY SUMMARY

(Dollars in Thousands)

PERFORMANCE FY 2002 FY 2003 FY 2004

BASED PROGRAMS Enacted Request Request +/– 03/04

Rulemaking $20,587 $22,320 $23,555 +$1,235

Enforcement $29,813 $30,999 $33,367 +$2,368

Research & Development $65,898 $64,952 $78,016 +$13,064

General Administration $6,528 $6,734 $7,378 +$644

Administrator’s Office $4,126 $4,257 $4,536 +$279

Total1 $126,952 $129,262 $146,852 +$17,590

1 Funding does not include CSRS accruals.
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Program

Programs

• Odometer Fraud — Initiate new cooperative agreements with two States to supplement NHTSA’s Odometer

Fraud Program with State law enforcement agents and award funding to two additional States to initiate or

enhance their odometer fraud programs.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

• Safety Systems — Conduct research to upgrade safety standards for compatibility, frontal crash protection,

advanced air bag systems, side crash protection, roof crush protection, ejection prevention, fuel system integrity,

and child safety.

• Biomechanics — Continue experimental, analytical, and field research efforts to enhance basic understanding

of prevalent injury mechanisms; develop injury criteria and performance limits for injury detection and control;

and design, test, evaluate, and document for incorporation into safety regulations a family of advanced crash

test dummies.

• Heavy Vehicles — Conduct research to support upgrading safety standards for braking and indirect visibility of

heavy trucks.

• Intelligent Vehicle Initiative — Conduct research (under the aegis of the USDOT Intelligent Transportation Systems

program) into the application of advanced technologies, such as radar sensors, advanced computational algorithms,

and user-friendly driver interfaces, to improve crash prevention and injury mitigation capabilities of drivers

and vehicles.

• Pneumatic Tire Research — Complete test procedures development and requirements for tire aging.

• Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) — Collect national highway fatality data that are vital to NHTSA’s

ability to identify life-threatening problems on the Nation’s highways. Provide the essential metrics for determining the real-world effectiveness of countermeasures aimed at reducing deaths.

• National Automotive Sampling System (NASS) — Provide data critical to government and commercial researchers

in developing and monitoring motor vehicle safety systems that save thousands of lives each year.

• Data Analysis Program — Conduct essential analytical projects, provide responses to over 20,000 requests from

the public at large, and generate metrics that enable NHTSA to track its progress toward meeting national goals.

• State Data Program — Provide essential crash information not available from other data collection programs,

filling an important gap by permitting the agency to further understand crash outcome information, discover

medical/financial data of victims, and the specific detail needed to support motor vehicle defect investigations.

• Special Crash Investigations (SCI) — Identify and document the effects of rapidly changing vehicle technologies to assess their impacts on real-world motor vehicle crashes. Evaluate newly introduced advanced occupant

systems and their affect on occupants in real-world crashes.

• Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Survey (MVCCS) — Collect up-to-date, real-world, crash causation data to

identify and understand motor vehicle crash factors that are integral to developing and evaluating crashpreventing countermeasures.

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION

• International Harmonization of Vehicle Safety Standards — Foster cooperative activities on bilateral and

multilateral bases to learn best practices leading to the development and adoption of globally harmonized

vehicle safety regulations. Enhance motor vehicle safety and minimize technical barriers to trade, reducing

both consumer and manufacturer costs.

• Program Evaluation — Provide objective quantitative information on the effectiveness, benefits, and costs of

existing regulations and programs and continue evaluating antilock brake systems for heavy trucks, advanced

frontal air bags, safety belt pretensioners, upper interior injury protection, and child passenger safety measures.

• Strategic Planning — Complete a study of long-range demographic and environmental factors that may

contribute to changes in highway fatalities and injuries. Use strategic planning as a management tool for

setting organizational direction and developing action plans to accomplish the agency’s mission to reduce

highway-related fatalities and injuries.

• Economic Analysis — Continue to develop the Functional Capacity Index (FCI) to classify the long-term effects

of injuries.
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BEHAVIORAL SAFETY

This request would allow DOT to reduce highway fatalities by developing effective

countermeasures that emphasize the benefits of occupant restraints, the risk of

impaired driving, and the need to adhere to traffic safety laws and encourage more

responsible driving behavior on the nation’s roadways, avoiding loss of life or

serious injuries due to traffic crashes.

BEHAVIORAL SAFETY SUMMARY

(Dollars in Thousands)

PERFORMANCE FY 2002 FY 2003 FY 2004

BASED PROGRAMS Enacted Request Request +/– 03/04

Highway Safety $58,523 $54,404 $53,606 -$798

Research and Development $7,325 $7,544 $7,645 +$101

Highway Traffic Safety Grants $222,992 $225,000 $447,000 +$222,000

General Administration $5,240 $5,402 $5,721 +$319

Administrator’s Office $2,126 $2,193 $2,337 +$144

Total1 $296,206 $294,543 $516,309 +$221,766

Program

FY 2004 HIGHLIGHTS

HIGHWAY SAFETY

• Impaired Driving Program — Support two intense national enforcement mobilizations,

with best practice demonstrations, legislative analyses and tracking, law enforcement

training, guidance for prosecutorial and judicial services, and Drug Recognition Expert

data demonstrations. Expand outreach utilizing the social marketing approach to influence

high-risk populations.

• Occupant Protection Program — Maintain focus on biannual enforcement mobilizations,

evaluating targeted youth enforcement and education strategies, and developing approaches

for reaching high-risk groups and environments such as diverse populations and nighttime

drivers. Continue to implement the TREAD booster seat education campaign and develop

methods for continuing gains in child safety seat use.

• Pedestrian, Bicycle and Motorcycle Safety — Develop high visibility, community–based,

pedestrian safety initiatives; implement innovative law enforcement strategies; and leverage

pedestrian safety with livability initiatives. Collaborate with national partners on motorcycle

and bicycle safety policy and programs.

1 Funding does not include CSRS accruals.
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Program

• Enforcement and Justice Services — Focus investments in new technologies, demonstrate

programs, and provide technical assistance and education in working with criminal justice

partners and licensing authorities on traffic safety issues, particularly impaired driving,

occupant protection, and speed management.

• Emergency Medical Services (EMS) — Continue to provide technical assistance to States

and national organizations to implement the outcomes from the National EMS Agenda,

including EMS education, trauma systems, research, wireless E 9-1-1, data, and performance

measurement.

• Highway Safety Research — Focus on impaired driving and occupant protection and continue efforts to reduce crashes by young drivers, pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorcyclists.

• Traffic Records, Driver Licensing & Driver Education — Improve timeliness, accuracy,

completeness, and accessibility of State Transportation Safety Information System data and

advance standardized driver licensing procedures and testing, including enhanced uniform

identification practices.

• National Driver Register (NDR) — Increase capacity and improve efficiency of the national

data base to assist States in processing individual drivers licenses by identifying drivers

whose licenses are denied, suspended, or revoked for serious traffic offenses. Test improved

technology and begin research into a nationwide all driver licensing system to reduce traffic

deaths and injuries.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

• Driver/Vehicle Performance — Conduct driver-vehicle safety research related to driving

performance, driver workload demands, driver distraction issues, the safety impact of

in-vehicle devices, and research in driver alertness and driver workload management.

• Driver Simulator — Conduct research to examine a variety of important issues, including

driver distraction (use of advanced technology) and alcohol impaired drivers (under conditions of task and environmental demand, and fatigue), utilizing the National Advanced

Driving Simulator.

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY GRANTS

• Section 402 State & Community Highway Safety Program — Provide a three-part grant program

comprised of 1) Basic Formula Funds, 2) Impaired Driving Initiative Funds, and 3) Performance Incentive Funds. States use these funds to support performance-based highway safety

programs focused on achieving national safety goals. Included are primary safety belt

performance grants that will be awarded to States that adopt primary safety belt laws or

meet or exceed the average safety belt use rate of States with primary laws.

• Traffic Records/Data Improvement Program — Provide incentive grants to the States to support

highway safety data improvement activities

• Emergency Medical Services Grant Program — Provide grants to assist States in developing

comprehensive wireless emergency access and response systems.
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HUMAN AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

This request would allow DOT to improve fuel efficiency in the light vehicle fleet,

thereby reducing American dependence on foreign oil, conserving a non-renewable

natural resource, and protecting the environment through reductions in pollution

from motor vehicles.

Program

FY 2004 HIGHLIGHTS

FUEL ECONOMY PROGRAM

• Determine future fuel economy standards by maintaining, updating, and expanding the

Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) database to perform analyses and to quickly

respond to inquiries for data and analysis.

• Conduct analyses to determine automobile manufacturers’ capability to improve the fuel

economy performance of their light duty vehicles.

• Perform technology reviews to assess the practicability and potential fuel savings of fuel

economy technologies.

• Perform economic analyses to understand the economic impacts of revised fuel economy

standards.

• Meet the National Environmental Policy Act requirement that Federal Agencies prepare

an environmental impact statement for proposals that significantly affect the quality of the

human environment.

HUMAN AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT SUMMARY

(Dollars in Thousands)

PERFORMANCE FY 2002 FY 2003 FY 2004

BASED PROGRAM Enacted Request Request +/– 03/04

Safety Performance —

Fuel Economy $441 $1,640 $1,949 +$309

Total1 $441 $1,640 $1,949 +$309

1 Funding does not include CSRS accruals.
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Alcohol Fatality Rate per 1000 Million VMT

Reduce the rate of alcohol-related highway fatalities

per 100 million vehicle miles traveled (VMT).

2001: 0.63

2002 Target: 0.55

2003 Target: 0.53

2004 Target: 0.53

In 2001, the rate of alcohol-related

fatalities was 0.63 fatalities per 100

million VMT (17,448 people were

killed in alcohol-related crashes).

The 2003 target of 0.53 per 100

million VMT, if met, will result

in a reduction of alcohol-related

fatalities to 15,600, assuming that

VMT will continue to increase by

an average of 2.0 percent each year.

It will be a challenge to meet this

target by the end of 2003. The

agency is implementing new programs in 2003 that should begin

to see positive results by the end of

the year. Because the 2003 target is so challenging, NHTSA has decided to keep the target at 0.53 for 2004.

Even though NHTSA should begin to see results in 2003, the agency still may not be able to achieve the

target without the States and communities enacting and, more importantly, enforcing strong alcohol laws

and reforming their individual impaired driving control systems.

DOT Outcome Goal:

Reduce the number of highway-related fatalities to no more than

1.0 per 100 million vehicle miles traveled (VMT) by the end of 2008.

OUTCOME MEASURES

The agency’s FY 2004 Budget Request to Congress includes NHTSA’s annual Performance Plan

highlighting the agency outcome measures and their linkage to agency activities and programs.

The plan ties directly to the goals and strategies outlined in both NHTSA’s and the Department’s

Strategic Plans. Although a number of factors outside of NHTSA’s control influence the severity

of highway crashes and the resulting fatalities and injuries, there is documented evidence that

federal vehicle and highway safety programs (in conjunction with the State, local, and private

programs engendered in part by the federal initiatives) have been highly effective in reducing

highway deaths and injuries.
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Increase safety belt use.

2000: 71 percent

2001: 73 percent

2002: 75 percent

2003 Target: 78 percent

2004 Target: 79 percent

Safety belt use in 2002 increased to 75 percent—an all-time high. The agency has set 2003

and 2004 safety belt use targets of 78 and 79 percent respectively. These targets are reasonable, yet challenging. Over the past

several years,

the agency has

been converting

approximately

8.5 percent of the

non-safety belt

users to more

regular users.

Continuing

to convert this

number each year

becomes more

difficult as the

set of “hard core”

non-users

becomes a higher

proportion of all

remaining non-users. States and communities will need to pass and enforce safety belt laws

and encourage their use in order for the national target of 79 percent to be met.

Current safety belt use prevents an estimated 12,000 fatalities and 325,000 serious injuries

every year, saving $50 billion in medical care, lost productivity, and other injury related

costs. Conversely, the failure of crash victims to wear safety belts leads to an estimated

9,200 preventable fatalities and 143,000 needless injuries, costing society $26 billion.

For each percentage point increase in safety belt use, 2.8 million more people buckle up,

saving approximately 250 lives and preventing over 6,400 injuries each year. Factoring in

the expected growth in VMT and population, achieving the 2004 target will result in about

12 million more people buckling up in 2004 than in 2002, saving 1,040 lives and preventing

over 27,000 injuries.

Belt Use, in Percent
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Child Occupant Fatalities (0-4 years)

Reduce the number of child occupant fatalities (0-4 years).

2000: 541

2001: 513

2002 Target: Less than CY 2001

2003 Target: Less than CY 2002

2004 Target: Less than CY 2003

Child restraints are the most effective restraint systems available to child occupants

of passenger cars. Rear-facing infant seats reduce the risk of fatal injury in a car crash by

71 percent, forwardfacing safety seats

for toddlers by

54 percent, and

safety belts by

45 percent. From

1975 to 2001, an

estimated 5,085 lives

were saved by the

use of restraints

(child safety seats,

booster seats, or

adult belts). In 2001,

an estimated 269

children under the

age of 5 were saved

as a result of child

restraint use.

If 100 percent

of motor vehicle occupants under age 5 were protected by child restraints, an estimated

407 lives (an additional 138 lives) could have been saved in 2001.

The agency has set its annual target to reduce child occupant fatalities, 0-4 years of age, to

less than the number reported in previous years, with an ultimate target goal of 465 or fewer

by 2005 (a 25% reduction from the baseline fatalities in 1995 of 620 child occupant deaths).

The agency plans to do so by increasing restraint use among all children and ensuring that

the appropriate restraint systems are used correctly. The agency relies on the States, communities, and other groups to encourage the use of child restraints and booster seats.

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HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY GRANTS

DISTRIBUTION OF NHTSA SECTION 402

(BASIC FORMULA GRANTS)

(Dollars in Thousands)

Estimated

Obligations

FY 2004

STATE/TERRITORY NHTSA

ALABAMA ........................................................ $2,655

ALASKA ..................................................................780

AMERICAN SAMOA .............................................390

ARIZONA .............................................................2,553

ARKANSAS ..........................................................1,989

CALIFORNIA .....................................................14,997

COLORADO .........................................................2,516

CONNECTICUT ...................................................1,545

DELAWARE ............................................................780

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ....................................780

FLORIDA ..............................................................7,434

GEORGIA .............................................................4,334

GUAM ......................................................................390

HAWAII ...................................................................780

IDAHO .....................................................................951

ILLINOIS ..............................................................6,225

INDIANA ..............................................................3,295

IOWA ....................................................................2,234

KANSAS ...............................................................2,342

KENTUCKY .........................................................2,347

LOUISIANA .........................................................2,345

MAINE .....................................................................780

MARYLAND ........................................................2,385

MASSACHUSETTS .............................................2,847

MICHIGAN ...........................................................5,086

MINNESOTA........................................................3,201

MISSISSIPPI .........................................................1,824

MISSOURI ............................................................3,393

MONTANA ...........................................................1,016

Estimated

Obligations

FY 2004

STATE/TERRITORY NHTSA

NEBRASKA ........................................................$1,557

NEVADA ..............................................................1,157

NEW HAMPSHIRE .................................................780

NEW JERSEY .......................................................3,671

NEW MEXICO .....................................................1,288

NEW YORK ..........................................................8,577

NORTH CAROLINA ............................................4,143

NORTH DAKOTA................................................1,076

N. MARIANAS ........................................................390

OHIO .....................................................................5,603

OKLAHOMA ........................................................2,434

OREGON...............................................................1,989

PENNSYLVANIA ................................................5,996

PUERTO RICO .....................................................1,648

RHODE ISLAND .....................................................780

SEC. OF INTERIOR .............................................1,170

SOUTH CAROLINA ............................................2,214

SOUTH DAKOTA ................................................1,092

TENNESSEE .........................................................3,084

TEXAS ................................................................11,101

UTAH ....................................................................1,284

VERMONT ..............................................................780

VIRGIN ISLANDS ..................................................390

VIRGINIA .............................................................3,471

WASHINGTON ....................................................3,100

WEST VIRGINIA .................................................1,066

WISCONSIN .........................................................3,191

WYOMING ..............................................................780

UNDISTRIB: ADMIN. COSTS ............................5,994

TOTAL ...........................................................$162,000

Miscellaneous
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National Highway

Traffic Safety Administration

Miscellaneous